Thursday, April 13, 2017

Sean Spicer, Hitler

From an article by Robert Fisk:

It’s not just a question of leaving Hitler’s ghost alone; never,
ever, compare anything to the horrors Hitler unleashed on the world in
the Second World War. Obviously, if the White House really wanted to
dump on Assad – whose name, I notice, they still cannot pronounce
correctly – it should have compared the Syrian President with Saddam Hussein, who really did use gas “against his own people”.

But there’s a problem there, too. Because the moment you mention
Saddam, you recall for your audience all the lies and “fake news” the
George W Bush White House spewed out about the Iraqi dictator before its
illegal 2003 invasion – “fake news” assisted at the time, let us
remember, by The New York Times. And then you also remind your audience
that the whole Iraqi adventure ended in a bloodbath for Iraqis and utter
catastrophe for the United States. So Saddam is out – and Hitler has to
be brought back to life yet again.

And yes, we compared Saddam to Hitler. Indeed another well known
chump, the son of our present Queen, reportedly told a woman who had
lost relatives in the Holocaust that Putin was doing in Ukraine “just
about the same as Hitler”. Moscow called this “outrageous”. That was
almost exactly two years ago.